r/foobar2000

A few months ago I posted about an audio visualizer app I've been building. It connects directly to some music players through their APIs, and foobar2000 is one of them. Else, it can connect to anything but you lose out on the API features.

The foobar integration gives you playlist access, album art, shuffle options, and volume control right from the app.

Once connected you get over 700 visuals (including Milkdrop). This demo shows two presets that support full flight with a controller.

Not sure how much to share here, so if these look fun, ask me anything.

I'm trying to mount here minimally, but I need a more decent view for the albums, I tried the foo spider monkey panel, but a message is popping up reporting incompatibility.

What other preview pane can I use?

-- SOLVED -- I wish to move the three UI elemenets i've circled in RED, down to the area marked in GREEN.

I've been screwing around for half an hour, all I’ve managed to do is stack them on top of each other, which is a huge waste of space.

I'd like for the all three elements to be in the same row, as they are now, just down the bottom of the UI.

Thank you all, and especially to u/FG3149 for a solution

foobar2000 on Mac has always been a great player but a dead end for plugins — no VST host in sight. So I wrote one for CLAP, the open plugin standard, and it's live and free. There is AU hosting, but not everyone use AU/Logic 😂

foo_dsp_clap drops a "CLAP Effect" into your DSP chain and runs any CLAP audio effect installed on your system, on everything you play — with the plugin's own native GUI and preset browsing built in.

What that means in practice:

• 🎚️ FabFilter — Pro-Q 3/4 to finally EQ your playback, Pro-L to loudness-match, Pro-C to tame dynamics, Pro-R for room, Saturn for a little grit. (These are the ones I tested against — they just work.)
• 🌊 u-he — Colour Copy, Satin, Presswerk, Twangström… their gorgeous CLAP effects, on your music instead of in your DAW.
• 🆓 Plus anything else CLAP: Surge XT effects, the massive free MeldaProduction bundle, Chowdhury DSP, Baby Audio, Audio Damage, Kilohearts… if it's a .clap effect, foobar can host it now.

It saves the full plugin state into the DSP preset, so your tone survives restarts and travels with your DSP presets. Chain several by stacking multiple instances.

The catch(es): macOS Apple Silicon only, foobar2000 v2, and a handful of JIT-compiling plugins (some DSP-emulation stuff) can crash foobar's hardened runtime — the mainstream effects above are fine. Open source (MIT).

Grab it: https://github.com/kartun83/foo_dsp_clap/releases — download the .fb2k-component, open it, restart, add "CLAP Effect" in Preferences → Playback → DSP Manager.

Would love to hear what you run through it. 🔊

I must be missing something right? The IOS now playing screen looks like a middle schooler’s compsci project.

A few days ago, in this post, I asked about displaying the current ReplayGain mode. I got a few questions about it, so here's why:

I use keyboard shortcuts to switch between RG modes: Album Gain, Track Gain, and Disabled. But not having an indicator forced me to open Preferences to see which mode was set.

Now, I can just look at my track info panel to see it (using the small dot to the right of my Album Gain readout).

Alt+A selects Album Gain, and places the dot where you see it above; Alt+T selects Track Gain, and places the dot to the right of my Track Gain readout; Alt+G disables ReplayGain, in which case the dot disappears.

Thanks, again, to Defender over at HydrogenAudio!

(I posted this in a new thread because I couldn't add an image to the original post.)

I had to reinstall Win11 and i couldn't restore my old Foobar 1.4/1.5 setup, so I decided to migrate to Foobar 2.0.

I was using JSmooth Browser for the lower panel, but simply copying the component, JS script folders and cfg files didn't work

Any idea how to recreate this look (especially the lower panel) using JS script panel or an alternative component?

Also, I can't remember how to create the multi-tab view on the upper left (file properties, folder tree, etc)